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I live in a tropical humid place that regularly gets 40+Celsius temps even during "winter" (it is currently "winter")
But I can afford air conditioning. A lot of people in my country cannot, and have just an electric fan and a lot of water to get them through the days.
"No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater; than central air." -- Azrael, "Dogma" by Kevin Smith.
We live in a more temperate place, but with the summers going increasingly more smoky and hotter - dry 49.6c temps caused our town of Lytton to burn to the ground - we took advantage of new, aggressive building code that stipulates one room must not get above 26c, and the cooling it mandates, to move to a new qualifying building.
The A/C units - even these lesser VRFs - are fantastic. Truly it changes the mood when I can work morning and night (WFHx2) without me or the nerd gear being too warm. It's worth this $4/sqft/mo price tag when the rent rebased.
I'm SO with you on this one.
Not even central A/C here. Just Split units on the bedrooms/home office -- But it already makes life so much more bearable
Even in humid areas, evaporative coolers can work and significantly cool things off. I imagine a combination of those (which tend to be much less expensive than AC and don't require any installation), a decent fan, a home painted white and a decent amount of shade trees would work quite well.
Of course, a lot of those things are luxuries as well.
True on all accounts.
Also fun aside -- Evaporative coolers are sold under the name of "refrigerating fans" here, a sort of "alternative" for someone who can't afford an AC (or can afford the machine but wants/needs to save on the power bill).